Gabrieli's are the earliest antiphonal works ever published, and probably the earliest ever written. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Those in attendance will also enjoy some specific climactic instances such as antiphonal brass. From Wordnik.com. [Times Leader News] Reference
Female singers generally use the falsetto while male singers generally use natural voice to sing this kind of antiphonal song. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
"An ignorance shared by the child, who exhibits a distaste for an interview," interpolated Miss Prinkwell, in a kind of antiphonal response. From Wordnik.com. [Trent's Trust, and Other Stories] Reference
A lyric may be a solo, or the matter may be arranged for 'antiphonal' performance between different performers, e.g. choruses of Men and of Women. From Wordnik.com. [Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature] Reference
This is seen by the 'antiphonal' distribution of the matter, for example, between choruses of men and women, and by the recurrence of passages ( 'refrains'). From Wordnik.com. [Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature] Reference
To match the title, Mr. Wilson chose an antiphonal form. From Wordnik.com. [Fanfare for the Column Man] Reference
Answered each other in a sweet antiphonal counter-change. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
Eric took up; and then the twins started their antiphonal speech. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
Inevitably greeted by the antiphonal retort: and fools seldom differ. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
A trope was next composed for antiphonal singing on Easter Monday, as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
All through the following week snow and frost kept up their antiphonal ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
He chanted the antiphonal, “Tut, my dear girl, what seems to be the trouble?”. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Back and forth resounded the sweet antiphonal, and the bird hopped down a branch or two. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
As if their antiphonal response was all the assurance she nee, the old woman fell asleep again. From Wordnik.com. [Briar Rose]
However in 1995, Sydney's antiphonal was loaned to Italy for a major retrospective of da Rimini's work. From Wordnik.com. [Rimini Antiphonal of 1328 discovered in Australia] Reference
The rites were conducted in Latin, the soft antiphonal murmuring soothing to the ear, though I did not understand the meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
It was from this antiphonal song, this alternation of versicle and respond, that the religious drama of the Middle Ages took its rise. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
St. Basil, an early champion of antiphonal psalmody, thought it a blessing to sing in turn like the choirs of angels on heaven and earth. From Wordnik.com. [Column: Antiphons for Anti-Noise] Reference
A 13th century Italian antiphonal of 180 folios from Christmas to the Saturday after Epiphany held by the State Library of South Australia. From Wordnik.com. [More Chant Manuscripts] Reference
However, a most impressive concomitant of the prayer, the chorus of responses which gave it an antiphonal quality, I have not attempted to set down. From Wordnik.com. [God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse] Reference
He also appears in manuscripts associated with male Dominican houses, like the antiphonal/hymnal combination found in the Badische Landesbibliothek. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
The liturgical chant of our Catholic tradition, on the other hand, privileges the responsorial, dialogical, antiphonal and acclamatory modes of performance. From Wordnik.com. [Fr. Kirby Weighs in: Hymns vs. Propers] Reference
Its cadences are antiphonal, as between the two worlds. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Story and Song from North America] Reference
Wild cries burst from his audience, antiphonal with his own. From Wordnik.com. [Other Main-Travelled Roads] Reference
Its structure is antiphonal as between Men, Women, and the two combined. From Wordnik.com. [Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature] Reference
Kentucky pretensions look small and pretty antiphonal, not to say oblique. From Wordnik.com. [A Horse's Tale] Reference
The work opens with the hymn blaring loudly from the antiphonal brass and wood. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Not soon shall I forget a winter day on which I listened with delight to such an antiphonal duet. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
Just here inharmony easily insinuates itself through the introduction of elements having no antiphonal connection. From Wordnik.com. [Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures] Reference
The cocks wake up if there is the faintest moonshine and begin an antiphonal service between responsive barn-yards. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
The musicians surrounded the audience, creating an antiphonal effect with the sound moving around the space from area to area. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
This was first sung by the class with antiphonal responses, then with a fugued finale, and Mr. Slehbell was considerably impressed. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference
Below, the brethren, likewise in white, answered to the choir above in antiphonal singing of the loveliest and most faultless sort. From Wordnik.com. [Duffels] Reference
The inspiring chants of Ambrose gave place to gloomy and monotonous antiphonal singing, -- that is, when the monks confined themselves to their own vocation. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Lights of History] Reference
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